JFORD1@UA1VM.BITNET (James Ford) (06/03/89)
This was taken from an IBM SIG conference. This is *NOT* a virus/trojan warning/alert; however I thought it might be of interest. James Original-From: Sysop Of 107/522 Original-Subject: .ZIP Utility ALERT FILES UPLOADED TO YOUR SYSTEM THAT HAVE BEEN COMPRESSED UTILIZING PHIL KATZ'S PKZIP/PKUNZIP UTILITY COULD CRASH YOUR SYSTEM WHEN UNZIPPED! As most of you know it is possible to reprogram your keyboard (and other things) using ANSI Escape sequences... .ZIP programs will allow the use of ANSI in the comments section... I have received several such "innocent looking" files in the last two weeks. One caused my F1 key to display a wide DOS Directory, the other attempted to delete all files on my hard drive!